Cup, Room, House, Neighbourhood, World: The Materialities and Environments of Ageing

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE038 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC11 Sociology of Aging (host committee)

Language: English

This session welcomes studies and papers exploring various types of relationships and interconnections between human ageing and the material world(s). All scientific paradigms and presentation formats are invited.
Session Organizer:
Vera GALLISTL, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Austria
Chair:
Maliga NAIDOO, Individual Affiliation, South Africa
Oral Presentations
Aging Bodies in Transforming Cities: A Dynamic Approach to Investigate a Complex Relationship
Valeria CAPPELLATO, Italy; Eugenia MERCURI, Italy; Magda BOLZONI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Bottled Fluids and Fluid Assemblages: Alcohol Consumption in Later Life As a Material-Discursive Practice
Anna Elisabeth WANKA, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Ageing with Prostheses
Magnus NILSSON, Linköping university, Sweden
Future of Elderly Care - Towards “Technologized” Intimacies and Posthumanism ?
Sayendri PANCHADHYAYI, Presidency University, India
Distributed Papers
Enabling Environment for Ageing Well: Nusbaum’s Capability Approach Applied to Housing Model
Cristiana DI PIETRO, Institute for Research on Sustainable Economic Growth - National Research Council, Italy
Understanding Aging in Place Among Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: A Qualitative Study Using the Social-Ecological Model
Mengyuan NIU, Hong Kong; Naubahar SHARIF, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; Xinyi WANG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; Wenjin CHEN, Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
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